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Just wondering whether you still have that pair of twin rope clutches for sale.
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
Just polling for informed opinions here - I seldom reach on Wednesday night races, but for the occasional weekend race on Lake Simcoe reaches are a fact of life. I have a typical collection of sails - main, #1, #2, blade and spinnaker. In the North U "Trim" handbook, they mention the use of Code 0 sails (especially for fractionally rigged boats, which ours isn't) or a staysail with the headsail (which in our instance could be fixed to the baby stay as apparently unrated area). Assuming either would be legal for PHRF racing (haven't checked), does anybody have any practical experience to suggest whether either of these would be more effective than reaching with the chute or #1 alone (plus mainsail of course)?
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
Steve,thank you very much for the reply. At this point Risque is hiding in a barn and it's too cold to do too much about fairing at the moment. I'd be happy to make a donation and borrow the templates from you. Only question is, how to establish contact without divulging personal information on an open forum?
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
Actually, I didn't re-post - not intentionally anyway. When I first tried to post the message, several times I was given a message to the effect that the security image that I typed in was incorrect, sending me back to the preview screen. So I'm guessing that through this cycle of having to resubmit each time I was rejected, the message posted more than once. Then, when I went back to the forum I saw that the message was posted in duplicate, but by that point I couldn't do anything about it. Have you run into this problem before?
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
My keel was really poorly faired when I bought Risque last year, but I put up with it for the season. I intend to correct it this spring. I'm looking at my options right now, but I don't intend to just eyeball the foil. I want to use an accurate set of templates to properly fair my keel, and I'm looking for options.
One option is through Compukeel, who charge something around US$250 for 3 templates, but they don't indicate which mark they're for. I'll e-mail them and ask.
As another option though, if anybody could tell me what the foil is that is used (e.g. a NACA number like 64-010) I may be able to have my own templates made up by a friend of mine - I can create the templates using profili, and he could import them to his laser cutter.
As a third option - is there anybody who has templates that they're willing to sell?
If anybody has any thoughts or input about this venture, I'd love to hear it... I couldn't find a thread regarding this in Forums and yet everybody understands that the keel foil shape is as important as the shape of your sails, so perhaps this is a good opportunity to get the discussion going.
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
Thanks everybody for your feedback. I'm still conflicted about this. When I cleaned out the storage unit that held the contents of the boat this past weekend, I found that among the sails was a brand new mylar #1 genoa (with hanks). I'm not sure I could bring myself to do anything to this sail, even if it meant just adapting it to work on a foil.
Probably the best I could do is sail it as it is with my family and see how it works out. Maybe I'm making too big a deal of it right now.
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
I just bought "Risque" last weekend from a good friend. Now I have to sell my boat (Tanzer 22), so Risque will be on the hard for a while yet.
Other than window replacement, I don't have any pressing issues to deal with on Risque. I crewed on this boat for several years for Wednesday night and weekend races so I'm pretty familiar with her, which kind of brings me to my question. On my Tanzer, handling the headsail is pretty straightforward because even though the #1 is quite big relative to the size of the boat, it's nothing like the #1 on Risque. I do want to continue racing, but my concern is that for cruising with my family, headsail handling will be a big problem. I can handle the sail myself by going to the foredeck, but I'm worried that my wife & daughters could end up being overwhelmed by handling the boat from the cockpit while I do this, if the wind picks up quickly.
So, I'm trying to learn more about roller furling. My fear with roller furling is that the extrusion that goes up the forestay will compromise the performance of the headsail for racing. I know that theoretically at least it will have an effect (see "Aero-hydrodynamics of Sailing" - C. Marchaj) but wonder whether this will be noticeable in real-world racing conditions. Similarly I wonder about the increased windage aloft when fully furled. Also, our Wednesday night races are on a fairly short windward-leeward course, sometimes with an offset. For white sail racing, the headsail would stay up, fully unfurled, but if I were to race flying sail - is it possible to furl the sail as I round the windward mark, or is it better to take the drum off in advance and just drop the sail? How do either of these operations compare vs. just dropping a hanked-on genoa?
Also, if anyone has good experiences with furlers they'd recommend, or bad experiences I should stay clear from, I'd like to hear them. I read previous posts and it seems that generally there haven't been any concerns mentioned with the furlers themselves but some installation-related issues need to be considered regardless of furler type.
Allan Bray
"Risque", Sail # 525
1984 C&C 27 Mk V
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